Augustin Shapiro
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Augustin Shapiro | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Died | 2813 |
| Affiliation | Taurian Concordat |
| Profile | |
| Rank | Comptroller |
Augustin Shapiro was an officer of the Taurian Concordat.[1][2]
History[edit]
In 2813 he was involved in the Taurian-Canopian War. The Taurian offensive began with Taurian Defense Force commander in chief Marshal Gertrude Blake-Andrews assigned to the two-world invasion's strategic command, seconded by Comptroller Augustin Shapiro.[1][2]
The Taurian invasion of Herotitus would be doomed from the very start thanks to the arrogance of Augustin Shapiro. With advance scouts indicating the Canopian garrison on Herotitus lacked much in the way of BattleMechs, the Second Pleiades Hussars did not even attempt to conceal their arrival at the planet's zenith Jump Point and secured the local recharge station without even trying to interdict its communications. Comptroller Shapiro's decision was one of psychological warfare, in clearly announcing the superior might of his 'Mech regiment and its supporting armor and infantry, he hoped to demoralize the MAF troops into surrendering and avoid a protracted fight.[1][2]
In truth the intelligence reports Shapiro had received were flawed, while the MAF garrison indeed had a relatively small 'Mech element, the Taurian scouts had failed to uncover that this lack was compensated by a significant volume of aerospace assets. Thus with eight days to prepare, a large mix of Canopian aerospace fighters, Small Craft and low-flying DropShips swarmed the shocked Taurians as they entered planet's atmosphere, inflicting heavy losses including Comptroller Shapiro, whose command ship proudly entered the atmosphere first - and thus was the first to die in the maelstrom. Ultimately barely more than two companies of Concordat BattleMechs and half a mixed regiment of infantry and armor made landfall, with Subaltern Josiah Brandamas of the Nineteenth New Vandenberg BattleMech Company the highest-ranking officer left. Recognizing the utter hopelessness of his situation, Brandamas chose to save the surviving Taurian troops by signaling his surrender before he even opened his DropShip's hatches, a decision that would earn him decorations after he and his troops eventually returned to Taurian space.[1][2]